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webboy · 04-25-2006, 11:30 AM

After a exausting week of trying different setups and OS versions heres the conclusion ive come to. It is possible to get larger than life disks in this bad boy.
As per Adaptec there is no hardware limitation in the 4400 and 4500's.

It would apear that the issue is the size of the 1st drive. My final atttempt to expand the drives to there fullest capacity failed again but this time the results were better.

I pulled the 1st drive from the origional server which has 200 gig drives formatted down to 169.7. I put it in the new server as drive 1 booted it up. Put the 1st drive from the new server in slot 2 it saw it as a 200 gig drive formated as 154 and reformatted it to match the first drive.

Powered down pulled the drive from the old server and put it back in it then moved drive 2 to drive 1 position booted up and started to feed the server drives. all formatted at 169.7 gigs.

At this point adaptec told me it would resync the drives to there proper size. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. it kept them at that size even after a system reset and upgrade of the OS.

Im wondering now if there is a way to telnet into the box via its serial port and expand the array from the command line. After all it is running linux.

Im tempted to call adaptec and buy a the largest replacement drive for a 4500 with the OS on it that they will sell and then buy matching drive to replace every drive in both servers.

04-25-2006, 11:30 AM	#3
webboy Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NJ Posts: 56	Re: Any one out there playing with Guardian OS After a exausting week of trying different setups and OS versions heres the conclusion ive come to. It is possible to get larger than life disks in this bad boy. As per Adaptec there is no hardware limitation in the 4400 and 4500's. It would apear that the issue is the size of the 1st drive. My final atttempt to expand the drives to there fullest capacity failed again but this time the results were better. I pulled the 1st drive from the origional server which has 200 gig drives formatted down to 169.7. I put it in the new server as drive 1 booted it up. Put the 1st drive from the new server in slot 2 it saw it as a 200 gig drive formated as 154 and reformatted it to match the first drive. Powered down pulled the drive from the old server and put it back in it then moved drive 2 to drive 1 position booted up and started to feed the server drives. all formatted at 169.7 gigs. At this point adaptec told me it would resync the drives to there proper size. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. it kept them at that size even after a system reset and upgrade of the OS. Im wondering now if there is a way to telnet into the box via its serial port and expand the array from the command line. After all it is running linux. Im tempted to call adaptec and buy a the largest replacement drive for a 4500 with the OS on it that they will sell and then buy matching drive to replace every drive in both servers.